Overview
- A four-day commemoration concluded with a remembrance march in Waldram that drew about 650 attendees under visible police and private security, according to police.
- About 40 former residents returned from Israel, the United States and Germany, joining roughly 120 students who carried 220 biographical plaques to former addresses.
- Education minister Anna Stolz lauded the Badehaus and said Bavaria will provide stable, long-term funding starting in 2026.
- Cardinal Reinhard Marx and antisemitism commissioner Ludwig Spaenle urged vigilance against antisemitism and warned against romanticizing the camp’s history.
- Föhrenwald, Europe’s largest and longest‑running Jewish DP camp, housed more than 10,000 people from 1945 to 1957, and the program featured a new film and a rooftop light installation scheduled for repeat showings.